What I love about Japanese Literature is how its simple engrossing plot ends with something dark and absurd. The woman in the purple skirt is a novella about obsession/ stalking/ mental illness. The narrator calls herself the woman in the yellow cardigan and knows every intimate detail of the woman in the purple skirt. From where she lives, to how many jobs she changed and even the shampoo she uses, every detail was stalked by the narrator.
She is so obsessed with the Women in the purple skirt that it becomes unnerving and frustrating at one point in time. Things start to turn dark when the narrator helps her get a job in the same place where she works to befriend her.
A short quirky and easy read ends with too many unsettled questions in readers' minds.
3/5
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